What did you do to or for or with your Laverda today?

I'm no expert Q but the way I'd do from my experience is
1  cut the shape you need and place it in the mold dry
2  pour in some epoxy and using your finger to impregnate the cloth, you'll see when it is wet. If you over work the resin it'll go cloudy.
3  repeat 2 more times.

Tight corners are a problem so you may end up with air pockets along the curved edges so important to work on those areas.
you could apply glad wrap and clamp some lengths of tube with a close radius along those edges.
Best case scenario would be to vacuum bag it but that's getting too professional.
Buy West System epoxy 105 and 206 slow cure hardener. Is what I used and is what Boba uses.
Cloth you can source locally from any fibreglass/resin suppliers. I used twill weave, 2 over 2 under but normal cloth 1 over 1 under will do . Twill should form better on compound curves.
When cutting the cloth it can unravel on the edges. Secret to hold it all together is to lightly spray some contact adhesive along the cut lines before cutting or use masking tape and cut along the centre of it so the adjoining cloth wont unravel either. It'll get cut off when you trim the excess off the edges. In the actual corners of the mold will be the biggest problem so I'd do a little cut so the cloth will fold over it self. When your ready give me a call if you like and I can go over the pros and cons with you.
 
Thanks Rob. Some great info there. Haven't touched resin or fibreglass since I made my 900SS seat for the SF about 40 years ago! I'm also hoping to modify the fairly plain jane SFC seat, just cutting and adding glass to build a slightly different shape - from there, if I like what I end up with, I might make a mould so if it's damaged or whatever, I have a get-out-of-jail card.

Carbon guard on the OW01 forks also needs repair.
 
Go through the carbs, bleed rear brake, fit and bleed clutch cover, wire up indicators, fit battery, fill with oil and a few other small jobs.
Customer work comes first so I try to fit this around that work.
 
Grant said:
Been a long time in the works, and still a long way to go, but thought I would share project Phoenix with you.
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Funny seeing a round headlight RGS fairing after all these years!  My dad did something similar with his (now my) RGA back in the 80's with a fibreglass replica RGS outer. He cut it down and used the original RGA lower vent pieces, glassed in the original round headlight and also some sort of semi-inner fairing lips around the hand cutouts.  Finished off with genuine Executive handguards and early GSXR mirrors which look somewhat like the Vitalonis but are a bit more useful.  The original RGA instruments were in there with the Passport radar detector back when you didn't get shot for having one.  It was a purely pragmatic and low budget solution for a bike that was our main touring bus back then, me on the back.  Happy memories.  Can't find a pic of it unfortunately, but it still resides under his house I'm sure.
In a move that always makes me wince, the Exec handgaurds were thrown out during a cleanup sometime in the 90's!!  :(
 
Like the look of the round headlight on the RGS, thought about doing the same years ago but I no longer ride at night never got round to it.
More aesthetically pleasing than the rectangular headlight IMHO.
 
I think a round headlamp might not be possible on an RGS as the fuel tank relies on a puke tank above the rectangular headlamp and forward of the instrument panel.
No such room with a round headlamp.
The RGA tank on mine means there is no issue there.
 
didn't HobNob do a twin headlight conversion without affecting the spill over tank, mind you they were 5" if I recall correctly.
CLEM
 
I came over all 'Steam Punk' after extracting a kitchen sink and recycled some pipes and fittings into making a Lav oil filler neck...
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It's a case of finding the right funnel with a long enough......funnel.
I always have one along with 2 litres of oil on long trips. My SF2 using about 500CC/1000km.

Paul
 
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